Bovinity Infinity

by River Cow Orchestra

1 The Lonely Ranger
2 Investment Bankers Are Whores
3 Sighs In The Aviary
4 The Devil Auctioning Off His Rejected Souls
5 Luxuries Of Brief Conspiracy
6 Socks
7 Glitter Dresses And Nail Polish
8 Insults Are In The Minds Of The Beholder
9 Why Didn’t You Wake Me Up?

Brent Bowman: Keyboards, Woodwinds
Connor Bowman: Woodwinds (Tracks 8 & 9)
Greg Field: Drums, Percussion, Poetics, Vocals
Charles Rice Goff III: Electronic Guitar, Moog Synthesizer, Winds, Percussion, Vocals, Toys, Noise
Michael LaGrega: Violin, Theremin, Conga Drums
John Lomas: Guitar Synthesizer (Tracks 4 & 6)
Don McCarter: Electric Guitar, Conga Drums, Piano
Allan McGinty: Bass, Bass, And More Bass
E.E. Pointer: Trumpet, Stories, Vocals, Percussion

Engineered and mixed by Lynn Allred at LA Audio, Olathe, Kansas

All of the music presented here was improvised at the LA Audio recording studio. Tracks 4 & 6 were recorded on August 23rd, 2008. Tracks 1-3, 5, 7-9 were recorded on January 10th, 2009. The "Bovinity Infinity" CDR album was assembled by Charles Rice Goff III and distributed by Taped Rugs Productions. Different configurations of these improvised recordings appear on the 2009 CDR albums: "The Tyranny and Grace of Good Socks" and "Secret Sickness," both assembled by Greg Field. Go to: www.myspace.com/rivercoworchestra for more information about these and other River Cow Orchestra projects.

Rotcod Zzaj of "Improvijazzation Nation" (USA) offered the following review of "Bovinity Infinity" in September of 2009:

"As many regular readers of this 'zine know, I've been reviewing works from our friend CRGIII for some many, MANY years now. This group, RCO from MO clearly "tastes like jazz", "feels like jazz" & "is jazz"! What I appreciate most about the music on "BI" is that it's different, in fact, it's definitely different - a great vid demonstrates just how jazzy-kewl the group gets - at YOUTUBE, you'll find "Investment Bankers". Just think of the attitude that our own hero Frank Zappa expressed in so many of his compositions, and then combine it with excellent recording, boppin' backbeat & vocals from a couple of the 8 or 9 players on the album, & you'll have a pretty good idea of where this music will take your head! You can hear streams at their MYSPACE site... & as you listen, you can read the notes, which will tell you (as I suspected) that this is all improvised - which makes it "infinitely" better for this reviewer... This jazz isn't stock schlock, & can't in anyway be confused with the dreaded "smooth" category, but it's right up my alley, 'coz it will get you all excited unless you're deader than an old titches' wit already. I sincerely believe this is the best creative venture I've ever heard from a midwestern group of cows & give it my MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, as well as the "PICK" of this issue for "best creative jazz"! "


Copyright 2009

Taped Rugs Productions
www.tapedrugs.com

River Cow Orchestra
www.myspace.com/rivercoworchestra


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